Posted on 01/04/2026 11:23:34 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Trump admin has overseen largest-ever drop in homicides in the US, but concerns linger about accuracy of data in Democrat cities
Despite a flurry of politically charged violence and a number of Islamic and left-wing motivated terror attacks, 2025 also experienced the largest single-year decline in homicides in US history. The plunge brings official US homicide rates to near-record lows.
Based on a sampling of preliminary crime statistics from 550 U.S. law enforcement agencies, the year is expected to end with a roughly 20% decrease in homicides nationwide, Jeff Asher, a national crime analyst, told ABC News.
“So, even taking a conservative view, let’s say its 17% or 16%, you’re still looking at the largest one-year drop ever recorded in 2025,” said Asher, co-founder of AH Datalytics and a former crime analyst for the CIA and the New Orleans Police Department.
The drop comes after what many law enforcement analysts call the “Pandemic Surge”, the Biden era explosion in homicides and overall crime was considered endemic to Democrat controlled cities across the US. Though, Democrat leaders claimed throughout Biden’s term that no such surge was taking place.
The spike in murders was the largest since the early 1990s at the height of the gang violence era. However, criminal data collection was incomplete during the Biden years due to a sudden change in the FBI’s Summary Reporting System (SRS). Starting in 2021, the FBI began transitioning to a new method called the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).
This transition was officially slated to take up to five years to complete and during the changeover a large percentage of US cities were not required to submit complete crime stats. Meaning, as bad as the pandemic surge was, the real crime rate was likely much higher than reported.
By the end of 2024, crime data coverage returned to around 95% of the population. This is rather convenient for Democrats given they had a convenient excuse to suppress true crime rates through lack of reporting; then, the reporting system went back to normal as soon as Donald Trump returned to office.
If the stats are accurate for 2025, this means the Trump Administration has overseen the largest ever drop in homicides in the US in it’s first year without the benefit of incomplete FBI data. This is impressive.
But there are some lingering concerns about the accuracy of blue city crime rates. For example, Washington DC officials have been caught in the midst of active suppression of crime data, using intimidation of precinct commanders as a means to rig arrest records and downgrade offenses while progressive prosecutors and judges keep conviction rates low.
The exposure of this fraud (due to law enforcement whistleblowers) led to the resignation of D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith and an ongoing congressional investigation.
The question is, how many other blue cities are involved in the same kind of crime stat suppression and is this the real cause of the drop in criminal activity. Or, did Trump play a substantial role in cutting down homicides? Perhaps the mass deportations along with National Guard deployments in place like DC and LA have had a meaningful effect on urban violence.
The fuzz have stopped counting dead people.
Baltimore has been a huge success.
Not many are talking about it but we should.
Baltimore, Maryland will enter 2026 as perhaps the only black-led major Democrat metropolis that isn’t run like an African warlord kleptocratic dystopia.
How did this happen? Simple. The good black folks in Baltimore finally got so tired of black criminal mayhem that they fired Marilyn Mosby, the Soros-bought prosecutor who let the gangs run the streets and hired fellow black, Ivan J. Bates, who went full Bukele on the city and started locking thugs up.
And almost overnight, the crime rate plummeted! Imagine that!
You can just do things.
Lies, d@mn lies, and $tati$tic$.
Follow the moneyl
Even Chicago is down vs. 2024 https://heyjackass.com
Around my parts, many more are carrying concealed.
That might have something to do with it.
And the rest got put on notice to mind their Ps and Qs or they will be making involuntary exits as well.
They will anyway. Just not running around committing crimes means that they are no longer painting as big a target on themselves.
Criminals have migrated to rural America.
With the advance of our digital overlords, it is harder and harder to commit serious crimes without getting caught.
This may not be true for all cases, because the clearance rate for murders has been dropping for about 60 years.
A very hard stat to collect without a LOT of footnotes.
For example, how many of the decedents were committing a felony when they were killed?
Were killed by someone other than a family member?
The list goes on and on.
Advances in medicine?
Whatever you do, never actually the article and make a rational comment.
I’m sure exporting many thousands of violent criminals who were here illegally has nothing to do with the reduced number of murders. /s
Lack of reporting.
AND the hospitals have been trained very well to treat gun shot wounds thanks to “teens” shooting each other frequently. Cops also carry trauma kits.
What Is the Real Reason For the Historic Drop In US Homicide Rates?
The storm Trump made with ICE other crimes dropped also.
That didn't just happen in the last five.
For decades, the best GSW training a doctor could get was in inner city emergency rooms.
“Criminals have migrated to rural America.”
That’s where I am, a town full of and surrounded by farmers. Crime here is mainly petty theft by teenagers/druggies, many come over from a nearby small city. I can remember one violent crime in the last 7 years here. Druggie shot his girl friend, she survived, he got caught after a chase. People walk the streets here at night with no fear.
I remember when the military was sending medics to Chicago for training.
We had a safe community until 4 Chicago gangs moved in and hundreds of illegals.
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